Colleen Powers is a writer and editor living in Minneapolis.

Jun 9 Apocalypse

1. Self-anointed prophets2. Men who exploit women3. Remembering the past too much4. Remembering the past not enough5. The recurring grief of everyone you ever knew being gone. Reading a hopeful list of names and hearing “no”s. Furiosa falling to her knees in the desert. A man stumbling into a closed-off airport and saying, “I thought I was the only one.”

Mad Max: “Who killed the world?”

Station Eleven: “I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.”

Mr. Burns: “And now that I’ve lost everything / Now that everyone I love is gone / All I have left is everything / The river carries me on”